May 02, 2008

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Previously president of the Independent Women's Forum and an executive at Citizens for a Sound Economy, Nancy Pfotenhauer will join McCain full-time as a senior policy adviser. She'll focus on fiscal, regulatory and energy matters.

As important, she'll serve as a public face for the campaign on TV, discussing policy issues. Because the candidate himself is so fond of doing his own media, McCainworld has fewer aides and advisers ready (or wanting) to hit the cable news circuit.

Pfotenhauer is already a regular presence on political shows, but now her title will change from "Republican strategist" to "McCain adviser."

The addition of Pfotenhauer comes on the heels of hiring former Bush aide Nicolle Wallace and elevating the profile of Carly Fiorina, all of whom bring a woman's touch to a McCain inner circle dominated by males.

Good because I think Obama and Clinton both had better points on the gas tax issue. McCain just doesn't seem to get supply and demand. And the economy SHOULD be a republican issue! Bill Clinton was sucessful on the economy because he ditched the old Democrat tax and spend... But R's have lost creditability on this after Bush not defending the war spending as emergency one time spending. If this had happened to Reagan he would have said,"Congress is tying my hands we need defense spending and the only way I can get it is by letting these irresponsible congressmen give away money. But Secrity is so important... tell the congress to knock it off...but I have to sign this..."